Lot M. Morrill

Lot Myrick Morrill (3 May 1813-10 January 1883) was Governor of Maine (R) from 6 January 1858 to 2 January 1861 (succeeding Joseph H. Williams and preceding Israel Washburn Jr.), a US Senator from 17 January 1861 to 3 March 1869 (interrupting Hannibal Hamlin's two terms) and from 30 October 1869 to 7 July 1876 (succeeding William P. Fessenden and preceding James G. Blaine), and US Secretary of the Treasury from 7 July 1876 to 9 March 1877 (succeeding Benjamin Bristow and preceding John Sherman).

Biography
Lot Myrick Morrill was born in Belgrade, Maine in 1813, and he attended Waterville College before becoming a private school principal in New York. He became a lawyer in 1839, and he became a popular speaker in Maine, befriending Democrats who supported temperance. He was elected to the State House in 1854 as a Democrat, but, after the slavery debate regained prominence in the 1850s, Morrill became a Republican, as he opposed the extension of slavery. He served as Governor from 1858 to 1861 and as a US Senator from 1861 to 1876, sponsoring legislation that outlawed slavery in Washington DC and advocated education and suffrage for African-American freedmen. From 1876 to 1877, he served as Secretary of the Treasury, and he died in 1883 while serving as the Collector of Customs in Portland, Maine.